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Originally Posted by Agiel7
I was under the impression that Ataturk saw to it that religion never got in the way of that sort of thing.
Wonderful country to by the way.
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Ataturk is under deconstruction sicne several years, thanks to erdoghan and the fundamentalist AKP party, which is nothing else but arch-islamic. If Ataturk would still rule the country and his intentions as expressed in the comstitution would still be honoured, the AKP would sit in prison. And actually, Erdoghan and many AKP officials did. It is last but not least due to Western pressure on the Turkish military to give up it's constitutional role to protect the state against Islam, callingthat "democracy", that has led Turkey to this massive re-Islamisation of the state structures again. But when "democracy" gets abused to install a totalitarian religious doctrine, of what use is this democracy then? It turns into a threat to itself and to others, that'S all. even democracy must know limits, beacause beyond these it starts to destroy itself - and that can hardly be the goal of democracy, or freedom, or tolerance.